Easter Prize QUIZ ...ANSWERS in General Discussion Forum 12.What was the first food consumed by the astronauts of Apollo 11, after the moon landing?............TURKEY 13.In which decade was Insulin first used in the treatment of Diabetes?...............................................1920's 14.The British cabinet has only once held a full cabinet meeting outside London, WHERE?.................INVERNESS 15.At the end of which period did the dinosaurs become extinct?........................................................CRETACEOUS 16.In the game of Chess, which piece always remains on the same coloured squares?..........................BISHOP 17.What was advertised using the slogan "Hello Boys!"......................................................................THE WONDER BRA 18.What Japanese word means "empty orchestra?.............................................................................KAROAKE 19.In the stock exchange, which animal is used as a nickname to describe someone who sells shares thinking that the price will fall?.........BEAR 20.Which Alfred Hitchcock film features a wheelchair bound man convinced his neighbour has committed murder?..........THE REAR WINDOW There you go.

I'm not keen on doing general knowledge quizzes because I'm fully aware that if you go on the net, or google for answers different sites will give you different info. Question number 5, people gave loads of different answers, and to be honest I have no idea what is correct, but this was a quiz from the net, with the answers so I have to go by that. Most of you did pretty well but 2 ladies got 19/20, and they were ROSYAPPLE and SANDRA CARMS, so Congratulations ladies, if you send me your names and addresses your prizes will be in the post.xx Just a "funny" one of you ladies got numbers 11 and 12 in the wrong order, so that the Astronauts had a "Chinese" for their first meal on the moon!! made me giggle!! Last Edited By: JACQUI Q Apr 7 10 6:32 PM. Edited 3 times.

bear - definition of bear in English | Oxford Dictionaries 3.1[with modal and negative] Manage to tolerate (a situation or experience): ‘she could hardly bear his sarcasm’ [with infinitive] ‘I cannot bear to see you hurt’ More example sentences ‘I shut my eyes tightly, not being able to bear the look of anguish on Adrian's face.’ ‘The pain got worse, and Raina could hardly bear it.’ ‘Unable to bear the situation any longer, Zhang Jianya turned to the court, alleging that Zhang Chun had criminally infringed upon his reputation.’ ‘Grant and Malinda could hardly bear their separation, and Grant longed to see his five children, one of whom was born during the war.’ ‘I can't bear suspense in movies and books.’ ‘The countryside gradually lost its brightness as the green grass faded into yellows and the flowers dried up and died, not able to bear the chilly temperatures.’ ‘He said it was never the triumph, or the sensation of winning that drove me, just he couldn't bear himself when he lost.’ ‘It was pouring with rain, so the mouse's hair was all spiky and we picked it up in a glass and took it into the front garden but could hardly

 bear to put it down because it was so cute.’ ‘I don't think I'll be able to bear it if he talks to me.’ ‘Close as they were, the two could hardly bear to talk about Darwin's view of life.’ ‘Tori could hardly bear it, how cute he looked with his mussed hair and confused expression.’ ‘What I am saying really is that most people ask me how can I bear it, because they feel that they themselves couldn't bear it but they could if it happened to them.’ ‘Cassie stood outside no longer able to bear the cloud of tension.’ ‘They were yearning to know whom he had finally chosen and could hardly bear to stay in the dark until that night, wondering if he'd made the right choice.’ ‘He said my skin was so smooth he couldn't bear it.’ ‘No one really came to that dump to eat, so she was never really that busy, but work got so monotonous that with every passing day it seemed like she wouldn't be able to bear it.’ ‘I am so up and down at the moment that I can hardly bear myself.’ ‘I didn't go as often as I should because I couldn't bear it.’ ‘We all feel that we can no

 longer bear the situation as it is.’ ‘Most people could not bear the thought of having their every move captured on film let alone watched by millions of television viewers.’ Synonyms 3.2cannot bear someone/thing Strongly dislike: ‘I can't bear caviar’ More example sentences ‘I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticky, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days.’ ‘Rather, women in contemporary India are also ‘subjected to the suppressed anger of the middle-class man’ who ‘needs his wife's salary to savour the goodies, yet cannot bear her independence.’’ ‘I have been here for 18 years and cannot bear the thought of leaving.’ ‘Aglaia cannot bear Nastasia taking precedence.’ ‘Also, he cannot bear other people's misfortune.’ ‘The Montserrat population cannot bear any tax increases at this time.’ ‘If Miss Field and her neighbours cannot bear the racket, they should consider moving out to the silent suburbs.’ ‘Every book I have written overflows with that loathing, and I cannot bear the sight of guns.’ ‘Having belonged to him once, I cannot bear myself.’ ‘Emilia cannot bear him, and William appears to loathe her.’ ‘

I cannot bear the thought of having to use something that resembles tracing paper and is as absorbent as a £10.00 note!’ ‘He begs Achilles to send him to battle quickly (oka); he cannot bear Achilles' intractable patience.’ ‘Yeah, I bought that album with them on sofas, but can't bear her voice now.’ ‘To this day, one of my colleagues cannot bear the sound of rubber plimsolls on a wooden floor.’ ‘‘If you cannot bear your name being mentioned in criticisms, then you'd better go home and be an ordinary citizen,’ she said.’ ‘As Dostoevsky once remarked, Russians cannot bear their own freedom; they seek someone before whom to bend their knee.’ ‘She said: ‘I have two boys who still believe in Christmas and, even though I cannot bear the thought of doing it without their daddy, I cannot let them down.’’ ‘This, just because a handful of people (who are probably tone deaf anyway) cannot bear the noise!’ ‘I enjoys the cars in North America but cannot bear the boring life there.’ 4Give birth to (a child): ‘she bore sixteen daughters’ archaic Help in a task or enterprise.

Example sentences ‘People crowded in from the dance-hall; odds & ends from the harbor bore a hand, and the girls took refuge behind the bar, squealing.’ ‘Premier Wen Jiabao bore a hand in retrieving salaries for migrant workers, practising the ‘people first’ approach.’ ‘Your task is first to be part of the solution by not being a compounding part of the problem, and then to be able to bear a hand in helping others.’ ‘I should have been very miserable had not Marah made me work with the men, hauling the ropes, swabbing down the decks, scrubbing the paintwork, and even bearing a hand at the tiller.’ ‘Although it is not experienced in every part of the world, it also bears a hand in the battle for food.’ ‘Duty Officers always turned to the topside watch and said… ‘Son, bear a hand and assist this under-the-weather fellow into the boat.’’ ‘With us the demands of ship work on our bare minimum crews do not allow of a duty signaller; he must bear a hand with the rest to straighten out the day's work.’ ‘When danger threatened there was resort to prayer, but work soon followed as the passengers bore a hand

 with the crew.’ ‘Beneath the heavy, vicious nose of a Navy Corsair fighter, WAVE mechanics bear a hand in engine maintenance as they drain the oil preparatory to filling it with new oil.’ bear something in mind Example sentences ‘And I'm bearing in mind that painkillers, like old age, are better than the alternative.’ ‘But it would pay the union movement, the low-income and the more romantic of Labour's supporters to bear this in mind, to spare them heartbreak.’ ‘The first half was a sedate affair bearing in mind what was to follow as Bowling made all the early running.’ ‘I don't know where I'm going with this, but it's a point worth bearing in mind.’ ‘Ideals versus realities is probably something I should be bearing in mind at this point in my career development, too.’ ‘It might be worth bearing in mind if you're brave enough to visit the shops during the January Sales melee.’ ‘It is also worth bearing in mind all the people Shipman did save.’ ‘That's only part of the story, I think, but it's worth bearing in mind.’ ‘As long as one bears in mind that the trade mark represents both source and responsibility for quality no harm is done.’

 ‘Use these key words as often as possible, bearing in mind most search engines have a facility to filter out mindless repetition.’ ‘It's frightening, especially bearing in mind what's happened in Soham.’ ‘It is worth bearing in mind, too, that this time the job could be that of prime minister, not just leader of the opposition.’ ‘I did very well in the heels all night though, bearing in mind that I've hardly worn high heels for any length of time for ages now.’ ‘If you bought your policy a few years ago, it is worth checking to see what it might cost you now, bearing in mind of course you will be older.’ ‘Prudence would have come at a price, and that is worth bearing in mind in the current debate.’ ‘This is a truly frightening sum - even more so when one bears in mind that it does not include local government staff, whose pensions are funded through council tax.’ ‘There's a bit of Horace which I think is worth bearing in mind if you're a writer or a publisher or indeed anyone who works in the book business.’ ‘But it's worth bearing in mind what de Caunes sacrificed to pursue his movie aspirations.’ ‘It's worth bearing in mind that the most exciting thing

 about the comic book medium is that you can bring pretty much anything into it.’ ‘The difficulty for the electorate will be knowing who and what to believe bearing in mind that in many cases we will have heard it all before.’ Synonyms bear someone malice (or ill will) [with negative]Wish someone harm: ‘he was only doing his job and I bore him no malice’ More example sentences ‘And among my acquaintances who ended up in Vietnam, none bore ill will or felt betrayed by civilian anti-war protest.’ ‘I should not bear ill will even against those those who have offended against me, and I must avoid getting into a rage, and I must make a firm effort in that direction.’ ‘The athlete might pray humbly to perform with dignity, not to disparage or bear ill will toward opponents, and to set a positive example.’ ‘Like most power struggles, the end result is that someone ‘loses’ and bears ill will from that point onward.’ ‘I did not like his looks at any time, and lately especially he had seemed to bear me malice.’ ‘I may or may not bear ill will toward the law school on whose waitlist I currently languish, behind individuals whose qualifications are, at best, questionably

 superior to my own.’ ‘We do not know whether Boyd bore ill will toward the woman, but it is possible that he did not.’ ‘If by that we mean a person who bears ill will toward Jews, and who, if given an opportunity, would harm the Jewish people, the answer is clearly no.’ ‘This tale turns on the assumption that the thieves bear ill will towards their victims, and the convenient explanation is the difference in race.’ ‘If one therefore bore ill will towards someone then it follows that we would wish to injure them, and our intention towards them would be destructive or evil.’ ‘And I don't bear ill will to anybody, as well as I don't bear it to myself.’ ‘But I don't know one veteran in my chapter who bears ill will against the Vietnamese people.’ ‘Geser tells a tale about the Virgin of Byzantium to whom somebody bore ill will and put a spell.’ ‘If Joseph bore ill will toward them did they really think they would win him over with a bag of pistachio nuts?’ ‘Searching for some solace, some clue that would let him know she had been happy with him, she had not bore ill will for him, that she loved him unconditionally.’ ‘It should be obvious

, but perhaps deserves mentioning, that none bore ill will toward the UN; none wanted the Security Council to fail in reaching a consensus.’ ‘Attell said it was cooling cocoa butter and, for many years, bore ill will towards Kilbane for this charge, which Kilbane often repeated.’ ‘If you bear me malice, wish me the opposite of luck, whatever that might be: destiny or skill, I suppose!’ ‘But thenceforth he bore ill will towards Rollant; it seemed to him that he would never be happy while he lived because of the disgrace he had brought upon him.’ bear a relation (or relationship) to [with negative]Be logically consistent with: ‘the map didn't seem to bear any relation to the roads’ More example sentences ‘At various points in his book, he declares himself incensed by the presumption that the Iris by his side is not Iris, but a generic Alzheimer's sufferer who bears no real relation to that entity.’ ‘In fact, very little of what happens in Dreamer bears a relationship to something that happened in real life, so the ‘true story’ part of the equation is a red herring.’ ‘But the tax bore no relation to ability to pay; within a locality every adult was charged the

 same amount, although millions of poor people got rebates.’ ‘But, in women, their sleep patterns didn't seem to bear a relationship to whether or not they got diabetes.’ ‘All lost weight, but the amount of weight lost bore no relation to whether participants were on a diet or not.’ bear a resemblance (or similarity) to Resemble: ‘the campus bore a faint resemblance to a military camp’ More example sentences ‘Miss Jackson is extremely tall and skinny with a very long neck, and while her body shape reminds me of a giraffe, her facial features bear a resemblance to that of a cross between a beaver and a duck.’ ‘Charlie couldn't help noticing that he bore a resemblance to Jerome.’ ‘Later he was kept in jail for three days because he bore a resemblance to a photofit shown on Crimewatch.’ ‘The collapse of the Nasdaq bubble left the United States in a situation that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the Japan of a decade ago.’ ‘Composed of a wiry, nervous line, these creatures bear a resemblance to birds only in their beaks and feathered silhouettes; they appear closer to deformations of nature.’ ‘The cop bore a resemblance to someone she used to know.’ ‘Main's method

 of meditation bears a similarity to, but has some differences from, centering prayer as practiced and taught by Keating.’ ‘Sightings at a holiday resort in Norfolk have proved incorrect and a woman bearing a resemblance to Carly seen at the Notting Hill Carnival was traced.’ ‘Although dwarfed in height, it bears a resemblance to skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Centre in New York.’ ‘The reason is that I bear a resemblance to her father.’ ‘He continued to ‘search’ passersby for the beautiful face he remembered from their brief, hostile acquaintance, but none of those he passed bore a resemblance to the missing lady.’ ‘When a tiny girl bearing an uncanny resemblance to Cindy Lou-Who whispered that she liked dolls and told us her name was Becca Larson, I announced that it was time for a game.’ ‘It is odd that today's strange vehicles should bear a close resemblance to those seen by a scornful poet at London's Rotten Row a couple of generations earlier.’ ‘What you need is a disguise that bears a resemblance to, say, Alan Dershowitz - an attorney who prefers rich, famous clients and seems to spend more time in broadcast studios than courtrooms.’ ‘Although their songs might lack the

 Seattle angst, their music bears a resemblance to the departed scene.’ ‘Some of the subs bear resemblance to the Biskup submarine due to its long perspective.’ ‘North Sumatra Police announced on Tuesday that 27-year-old Zulfan, who bears a resemblance to one of the three sketches of suspects in the Oct.12.’ ‘The bolt shroud is Mauser-like but with a three position horizontal safety, which bears a resemblance to that of the Winchester M70.’ ‘A photograph of a man bearing a resemblance to Mr Bond, circulated in March last year, appears on the Interpol website.’ ‘What has happened to recent Evo's is that the car bears less and less resemblance to its road going counterpart and has become too recognizable IMHO.’ bear witness (or testimony) to 1Testify to: ‘little is left to bear witness to the past greatness of the city’ More example sentences ‘The monument bears witness to 54 women who have gone missing from downtown Vancouver streets - some 15 miles from the farm - in the last two decades.’ ‘The sober person will bear witness to all the messy foibles of your evening.’ ‘A couple of bars still stand nearby, bearing silent witness to the passing of better days.’

 ‘Damien ate cartloads of food every day - I bore witness to that - but never gained the body mass to prove it.’ ‘The old clock still works accurately bearing witness to nearly a century that is behind it.’ ‘I have been checking in with Win since he moved into Room 607, to bear witness to what can happen when someone society has given up on is given a fresh start.’ ‘My children bear witness as to how successful this is.’ ‘I think the California energy crisis a few years back bears testimony to that.’ ‘It breaks my heart to bear witness to what has become of T & T's social fabric as the result of the relentless pursuit of material rewards and possessions at the expense of all else.’ ‘Dhaka is a city with architecture that bears witness to more than 400 years of her history.’ ‘There is definitely money - 4x4 vehicles, restaurants, hotels and mansions on Luanda's beachfront bear testimony to that.’ ‘Millions of Americans gather around their television each year in early May to bear witness to what has become known as the greatest two minutes in sport.’ ‘Here you are bearing witness to actually terrible suffering in Australia.’ ‘He quickly summons his friends to bear witness to what

 they see, and, ever the methodical investigator, he even goes so far as to get them to write down what they observe and then sign their affidavits.’ ‘A friendly and very respectable man, the attendance at his funeral in Newbridge last week, bore testimony to his popularity in the local community.’ ‘And I'd also add that the experience of Matt Cooper, who I represent, sort of bears witness to what can happen.’ ‘But, if you do that, you are not actually bearing witness to what has happened to them and it is extremely difficult.’ ‘Yes, after the many horrors he's bore witness to, I'm not surprised as to why he is so reclusive.’ ‘It has not been an easy process and all of you can bear testimony to that.’ ‘A case in point - only a week after the legislation was brought into place I personally bore witness to what could only be termed as pure stupidity as little boy racers took to the water in one of our main ports.’ Synonyms 1.1State or show one's belief in: ‘people bearing witness to Jesus’ More example sentences ‘The Saatchi advertising and point of sale material bears witness to the trust and passion between the 40 founding friends.’ ‘Fa

ith demands a commitment to bear witness to belief in a real and practical way.’ ‘You stand in a long and honourable tradition of Christians bearing witness to the love of Christ in hard and dangerous places.’ ‘As a monument to the power of one man to bear witness to the Gospel - and to share that witness with millions of others - his papacy was one of the greatest ever.’ ‘Today's women are bombarded by images of ever-shrinking stars who seem to bear testimony to the belief that to be thin is to be happy and successful.’ ‘Her Edinburgh studio bears witness to this immersion in Scapa Flow.’ ‘It's as if people are bearing testimony with their hair that God lives and is angry.’ ‘We must learn from them as they bear witness to and engage the biblical witness to God's revelation.’ ‘The preacher does not just bear witness to some creed - he bears witness to the truths that live in his heart and, in so doing, communicates these living truths to the hearts of others.’ ‘Her conversion in September bears witness to her own new found beliefs.’ ‘This life-which is bearing witness to faith-is revealed in scripture, celebrated in worship, and lived in the service of others, what I would call hospitality and care.’ ‘Of

 particular interest was Dennis Tupicoff's His Mother's Voice, based on a radio interview with an Australian mother bearing witness to how she discovered the sudden death of her 16-year-old son.’ ‘Poetry, in its modern role of having to suffice for the amorphous outside of other discourses, in its scavenging role as witness of the unsaid and unsayable, bears witness to rejection.’ ‘And his recent works, exhibited at the newly-opened Kashi Art Gallery in Bazar Road of Mattancherry, also bear testimony to his beliefs.’ be borne in on (or upon) Come to be realized by: ‘the folly of her action was borne in on her’ More example sentences ‘He was a splendid worker but influence was brought to bear on him, which eventually made him decide to resign from the mission and enter the mining business.’ ‘Elinor has her full complement of sensibility, though her capacity and her cause for suffering is late to be borne in on her inattentive family.’ ‘Tracing the musical genealogy of any given nationalistic genre is no easy task, particularly when there are many influences brought to bear upon it.’ ‘As I listened it began to be borne in on me that he was

 talking complete nonsense, and that I had better have a bit of a think about it.’ ‘The truth has been borne in upon them through their own brave stand that there can be no normal sport in an abnormal society.’ ‘He ran hard for a quarter of a mile, and at the end of that distance it began to be borne in upon him as a strange and curious thing that there were so few people about, and that there were no shops open.’ ‘The truth of that observation will, I think, be borne in on anyone who has watched the BBC tape, as I have.’ not bear thinking about 1.1Take strict measures to deal with: ‘a commitment to bear down on inflation’ More example sentences ‘He was especially eager to bear down on the then-flaccid economy.’ ‘In Phase Two of the ETS we need not only to bear down on carbon emissions (which means tighter caps all round), but also to ensure a more transparent way of allocating the emission allowances in the first place.’ ‘The purpose of the operation is to bear down on what we believe to be concentrations of insurgents and their equipment.’ ‘This scheme appears to contradict the commitment to bear down on night noise.’ ‘This support was not just for the benefits that membership would

 bring in bearing down on inflation, but also for the fiscal discipline and wider advantages it would bring, particularly for business.’ bear off Change course away from the wind.

Example sentences ‘Whenever the boat slows down it pays to ease the sheet, bear off a couple of degrees and then point up again once the boat has regained speed.’ ‘Then bear off slightly, steering away from the wind (tiller away from the sails) until the sail just stops luffing.’ ‘Suddenly she leapt into overdrive as I bore off 20 or so degrees to allow for the extra sail area and increase in apparent wind.’ ‘I bore off under full sail and never came close to burying the boat's rail.’ ‘Of course, once you catch a wave be sure to bear off and use it to sail down to the mark and increase your VMG.’ bear on ‘two kinds of theories which bear on literary studies’ More example sentences ‘Taranto's column also bears on our report from Thomas Lipscomb immediately below regarding the masks of John Kerry.’ ‘This study has absolutely no bearing on the relative therapeutic potency of butterbur and cetirizine in hay fever.’ ‘In this paper, we reviewed the extant literature that appears to bear on this point.’ ‘Walker's method of attending closely to cultural contexts and bringing questions of gender to bear on the study of violent crimes yields some striking results.’ ‘One of the most valuable

 aspects of his work is that it brings English thinking to bear on the art and theory of Continental European modernism.’ ‘Here we review the animal and human studies that bear on this complex, yet common, clinical conundrum.’ ‘Here again the literary dimensions of the dialogue are presented as bearing on its philosophical content.’ ‘Does this have any bearing on the relationship between Informatica and Composite?’ ‘Both look at how extra economic factors have a bearing on labour relations.’ ‘She brings the historian's craft to bear on the study of the epidemic raging at that time, and her account is both enthralling and meticulous.’ ‘Voltinism bears on the hypothesis, especially in regard to T2 species, in two respects.’ ‘The science that studies it will bear on a certain kind of being, immovable substance, immaterial being, not on being as being.’ ‘Several literatures bear on the relationship between gender and New Age beliefs and practices.’ ‘Hendrickson skillfully incorporates relevant readings that bear on whether or not WPR requirements were met.’ ‘In this paper I want to take up certain Hindu formulations of the rasa theory which bear on aesthetic experiences, for several reasons.’ ‘Third, our results bear on current approaches and findings in the network literature

.’ ‘This study also bears on the nature and importance of changes in the configurational entropy on binding.’ ‘So much for the outline of the theory as it bears on our present interests.’ ‘The representing homomorphisms allow the scientist to bring the powerful resources of set theory to bear on the surrogates.’ ‘A direct consequence of this theory of embryological origin bears on the question of species transformism.’ Synonyms be relevant to, appertain to, pertain to, relate to, have a bearing on, have relevance to, apply to, be pertinent to, have reference to, concern, be concerned with, have to do with, be connected with 1.1[with adverbial]Be a burden on: ‘the extension of VAT to domestic fuel will bear hard on the low-paid’ More example sentences ‘In fruits and vegetables, the stimulation of ethylene production by cuts or bruises may be very large and bear considerably on storage effectiveness.’ ‘These last are the levies which bear most heavily on the poor, who pay no income tax.’ ‘The turns and toils of life bear heavy on the soul of man.’ ‘These menu costs will bear heavily on small-medium sized enterprises.’ ‘Immigrant children and youth are the fastest growing

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population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country.’ bear something out ‘this assumption is not borne out by any evidence’ More example sentences ‘Most crucially, Ella Mae's and Peaches's assessment of socially and morally retrogressive nature of black man-white woman relationships bears itself out in Jones's eventual choice of Madge over Alice.’ ‘In fact these assumptions are not borne out by the events that subsequently unfolded.’ ‘Public opinion polls bear out this growing tolerance.’ ‘I know that the Minister will bear these figures out and support me in this, because the growth in vehicle traffic grows greater than inflation every year.’ ‘Election problems in various states such as Ohio, Virginia, Texas, California, and Florida bear them out, justifying a growing unease with electronic voting.’ ‘But he also detects the familiar, steely resolve of a Chancellor who is convinced that they will be borne out.’ ‘But ultimately he decided to hire us, and it bore itself out well.’ ‘I had a different view in relation to Steve Martin and sadly I've been misled in terms of what he told me, but again that's human nature bearing itself out.’ ‘Their opposition to slavery is borne out in Richard Popkin's studies of eighteenth-century racism

.’ ‘Reducing seal populations or eliminating them, contributes nothing to the recovery of fisheries, as the Canadian experience bears out.’ ‘I'm not sure that my observation bears this assumption out, but if it is true, some thought should be given to the condition of ethics in the United States.’ ‘Don Banks of Sports Illustrated.com wrote: ‘The old debate about the offense selling tickets but defense winning championships bore itself out fittingly Sunday.’’ ‘Disc One is subtitled ‘Song Cycle No.1 for Rural Michigan ’, and the implication is that its 10 songs, recorded from 1996 to 1999, were intended to form a unified body of work, a promise that actually bears itself out pretty well.’ ‘Unfortunately, as this article suggests and experience tends to bear out, the masses do judge certain subjects to be more important than others.’ ‘Everything in Seymour's professional experience would seem to bear out Miller's contention.’ ‘Several of these early assumptions were not borne out in the final programme.’ ‘Lai notes that the mathematical treatment was as realistic as possible, using the full so-called Navier-Stokes fluid mechanics equation, but he hopes that experimental confirmation will bear the scheme out.’ ‘I think this prediction really bore itself

 out.’ ‘We assume that statesmen think and act in terms of interest defined as power, and the evidence of history bears that assumption out.’ ‘Clearly, if what we've been reporting bears itself out with facts on the ground, Sistani, his prestige already high, becomes even that much higher and he really walks away with tremendous political clout, should he choose to wield it.’ Synonyms ‘‘Farmers are bearing up to the crisis remarkably well,’ said Mr Gullett.’ ‘Through it all, Ho has been bearing up as well as he can.’ ‘In my mind, dignity comes from bearing up under suffering we meet throughout our lives rather than letting it destroy us, and from facing fears rather than caving in to them.’ ‘Your Mom goes shopping with Dottie and Betty, and over low-fat frozen-yogurt in the food court they worry about how Gloria's been bearing up since her Frank went into the hospital.’ ‘We are in touch with him and his is bearing up well and keeping himself busy.’ ‘Well, she is bearing up as well as she can simply because between her and my father they never left anything unsaid, particularly their love for each other.’ ‘She added: ‘Tina is bearing up as well as can

 be expected.’’ ‘That, and a few personal asides on how he is bearing up under the pressure he has been under over the past few months, should have sufficed as a justification for the 45 bill each member of the lobby had to stump up for the three courses.’ ‘Edmond bore up bravely and I think even enjoyed himself quite a bit, despite a tap-dancing scene which exceeded my tolerance as well.’ ‘‘I hope he is personally bearing up under the strain of all of this and obviously we will hear more this afternoon,’ he said.’ ‘It'll be interesting to see how he bears up under this and what happens.’ ‘The children are bearing up as well as can be expected.’ ‘She is bearing up very well, but she has had a tremendous shock.’ ‘A police spokeswoman said: ‘They're bearing up well considering the circumstances, but are obviously very anxious for Danielle's welfare.’’ ‘His wife is okay and bearing up at the moment and we are just very shocked by what has happened and don't really know what to say.’ ‘He told me the Queen was bearing up bravely but that Charles couldn't speak to anyone at the moment.’ ‘He is really upset that his mum is suddenly gone, but

 he is bearing up really well, I am very proud of him, and I am sure his mum would be too.’ ‘They are very determined and they're bearing up well but their freedom has been taking away from them.’ ‘The victim is bearing up reasonably well considering her ordeal.’ ‘It's a learning experience for sure, something you have to bear up for and get through.’ Synonyms cope, persevere, manage, endure Be patient or tolerant with: ‘bear with me a moment while I make a phone call’ More example sentences ‘For the next 48 hours, she bore with my frettings.’ ‘Thank you for bearing with us, Mr Virdi, while we considered your reaction to Sir Anthony's brief statement.’ ‘He said: ‘The project is progressing well and motorists are being very co-operative.

We want to thank them and members of the public for the way they have been bearing with us in this immensely interesting time for the city.’’ ‘At least till then, the Usilampatti hospital patients may have to bear with the bread.’ ‘Thank you for your patience in bearing with me this far.’ ‘The VIP tickets rocked, and I'd like to thank my wife for bearing with me while I pointed out every other journalist, colleague and showbiz I knew over the 8 hours we were there, stretched out having a picnic in front of 190,000 other people.’ ‘Please bear with me, as I spend most of the brief time left making my case, not rebutting yours.’ ‘Mr Proctor said: ‘Not only would we like to praise the commitment and dedication of all our hospital staff during this difficult period, but we would also like to thank our patients, their families and friends for bearing with us.’’ ‘She passed to her eternal reward on Wednesday, 14th Aug., after a long illness which she bore with great strength and dignity.’ ‘The unprecedented scale of the bar's popularity even took us by surprise and I thank all our trade customers for bearing with us while supply caught up with demand.’

 ‘Gerry died after a long illness which he bore with great courage.’ ‘He has suffered a very long illness which he bore with resignation and courage.’ ‘The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians.’ ‘So she doubtless bore with some equanimity the news that Mr Smith has also been freed up to spend more time with his Munros.’ ‘He begins to suffer from confusion, which he bears with great patience and the most moving anxiety.’ ‘Be completely humble and gentle; be patient bearing with one another in love.’ ‘We are grateful to people for bearing with us as we did the repairs.’ ‘The death took place on Monday, May 16, of Tommy Staunton, Sraheen following a long illness which he bore with great dignity and acceptance under the loving care of his wife Bridie and family.’ ‘Mr Gavin said: ‘We would like to thank staff, parents and pupils, and the community education service, for bearing with us during this time’’ ‘I'd like to thank local residents for bearing with us and for supporting recycling so enthusiastically.’ Synonyms bear - definition of bear in English | Oxford Dictionaries 

3.1[with modal and negative] Manage to tolerate (a situation or experience): ‘she could hardly bear his sarcasm’ [with infinitive] ‘I cannot bear to see you hurt’ More example sentences ‘I shut my eyes tightly, not being able to bear the look of anguish on Adrian's face.’ ‘The pain got worse, and Raina could hardly bear it.’ ‘Unable to bear the situation any longer, Zhang Jianya turned to the court, alleging that Zhang Chun had criminally infringed upon his reputation.’ ‘Grant and Malinda could hardly bear their separation, and Grant longed to see his five children, one of whom was born during the war.’ ‘I can't bear suspense in movies and books.’ ‘The countryside gradually lost its brightness as the green grass faded into yellows and the flowers dried up and died, not able to bear the chilly temperatures.’ ‘He said it was never the triumph, or the sensation of winning that drove me, just he couldn't bear himself when he lost.’ ‘It was pouring with rain, so the mouse's hair was all spiky and we picked it up in a glass and took it into the front garden but could hardly bear to put it down because it was so cute.’ ‘

I don't think I'll be able to bear it if he talks to me.’ ‘Close as they were, the two could hardly bear to talk about Darwin's view of life.’ ‘Tori could hardly bear it, how cute he looked with his mussed hair and confused expression.’ ‘What I am saying really is that most people ask me how can I bear it, because they feel that they themselves couldn't bear it but they could if it happened to them.’ ‘Cassie stood outside no longer able to bear the cloud of tension.’ ‘They were yearning to know whom he had finally chosen and could hardly bear to stay in the dark until that night, wondering if he'd made the right choice.’ ‘He said my skin was so smooth he couldn't bear it.’ ‘No one really came to that dump to eat, so she was never really that busy, but work got so monotonous that with every passing day it seemed like she wouldn't be able to bear it.’ ‘I am so up and down at the moment that I can hardly bear myself.’ ‘I didn't go as often as I should because I couldn't bear it.’ ‘We all feel that we can no longer bear the situation as it is.’ ‘Most people could

 not bear the thought of having their every move captured on film let alone watched by millions of television viewers.’ Synonyms 3.2cannot bear someone/thing Strongly dislike: ‘I can't bear caviar’ More example sentences ‘I cannot bear the plethora of tacky, pointless, plasticky, badly constructed, playthings that are manufactured these days.’ ‘Rather, women in contemporary India are also ‘subjected to the suppressed anger of the middle-class man’ who ‘needs his wife's salary to savour the goodies, yet cannot bear her independence.’’ ‘I have been here for 18 years and cannot bear the thought of leaving.’ ‘Aglaia cannot bear Nastasia taking precedence.’ ‘Also, he cannot bear other people's misfortune.’ ‘The Montserrat population cannot bear any tax increases at this time.’ ‘If Miss Field and her neighbours cannot bear the racket, they should consider moving out to the silent suburbs.’ ‘Every book I have written overflows with that loathing, and I cannot bear the sight of guns.’ ‘Having belonged to him once, I cannot bear myself.’ ‘Emilia cannot bear him, and William appears to loathe her.’ ‘I cannot bear the thought of having to use something that resembles

 tracing paper and is as absorbent as a £10.00 note!’ ‘He begs Achilles to send him to battle quickly (oka); he cannot bear Achilles' intractable patience.’ ‘Yeah, I bought that album with them on sofas, but can't bear her voice now.’ ‘To this day, one of my colleagues cannot bear the sound of rubber plimsolls on a wooden floor.’ ‘‘If you cannot bear your name being mentioned in criticisms, then you'd better go home and be an ordinary citizen,’ she said.’ ‘As Dostoevsky once remarked, Russians cannot bear their own freedom; they seek someone before whom to bend their knee.’ ‘She said: ‘I have two boys who still believe in Christmas and, even though I cannot bear the thought of doing it without their daddy, I cannot let them down.’’ ‘This, just because a handful of people (who are probably tone deaf anyway) cannot bear the noise!’ ‘I enjoys the cars in North America but cannot bear the boring life there.’ 4Give birth to (a child): ‘she bore sixteen daughters’ archaic Help in a task or enterprise.

Example sentences ‘People crowded in from the dance-hall; odds & ends from the harbor bore a hand, and the girls took refuge behind the bar, squealing.’ ‘Premier Wen Jiabao bore a hand in retrieving salaries for migrant workers, practising the ‘people first’ approach.’ ‘Your task is first to be part of the solution by not being a compounding part of the problem, and then to be able to bear a hand in helping others.’ ‘I should have been very miserable had not Marah made me work with the men, hauling the ropes, swabbing down the decks, scrubbing the paintwork, and even bearing a hand at the tiller.’ ‘Although it is not experienced in every part of the world, it also bears a hand in the battle for food.’ ‘Duty Officers always turned to the topside watch and said… ‘Son, bear a hand and assist this under-the-weather fellow into the boat.’’ ‘With us the demands of ship work on our bare minimum crews do not allow of a duty signaller; he must bear a hand with the rest to straighten out the day's work.’ ‘When danger threatened there was resort to prayer, but work soon followed as the passengers bore a hand

 with the crew.’ ‘Beneath the heavy, vicious nose of a Navy Corsair fighter, WAVE mechanics bear a hand in engine maintenance as they drain the oil preparatory to filling it with new oil.’ bear something in mind Example sentences ‘And I'm bearing in mind that painkillers, like old age, are better than the alternative.’ ‘But it would pay the union movement, the low-income and the more romantic of Labour's supporters to bear this in mind, to spare them heartbreak.’ ‘The first half was a sedate affair bearing in mind what was to follow as Bowling made all the early running.’ ‘I don't know where I'm going with this, but it's a point worth bearing in mind.’ ‘Ideals versus realities is probably something I should be bearing in mind at this point in my career development, too.’ ‘It might be worth bearing in mind if you're brave enough to visit the shops during the January Sales melee.’ ‘It is also worth bearing in mind all the people Shipman did save.’ ‘That's only part of the story, I think, but it's worth bearing in mind.’ ‘As long as one bears in mind that the trade mark represents both source and responsibility for quality no harm is done.’

 ‘Use these key words as often as possible, bearing in mind most search engines have a facility to filter out mindless repetition.’ ‘It's frightening, especially bearing in mind what's happened in Soham.’ ‘It is worth bearing in mind, too, that this time the job could be that of prime minister, not just leader of the opposition.’ ‘I did very well in the heels all night though, bearing in mind that I've hardly worn high heels for any length of time for ages now.’ ‘If you bought your policy a few years ago, it is worth checking to see what it might cost you now, bearing in mind of course you will be older.’ ‘Prudence would have come at a price, and that is worth bearing in mind in the current debate.’ ‘This is a truly frightening sum - even more so when one bears in mind that it does not include local government staff, whose pensions are funded through council tax.’ ‘There's a bit of Horace which I think is worth bearing in mind if you're a writer or a publisher or indeed anyone who works in the book business.’ ‘But it's worth bearing in mind what de Caunes sacrificed to pursue his movie aspirations.’ ‘It's worth bearing in mind that the most exciting thing

 about the comic book medium is that you can bring pretty much anything into it.’ ‘The difficulty for the electorate will be knowing who and what to believe bearing in mind that in many cases we will have heard it all before.’ Synonyms bear someone malice (or ill will) [with negative]Wish someone harm: ‘he was only doing his job and I bore him no malice’ More example sentences ‘And among my acquaintances who ended up in Vietnam, none bore ill will or felt betrayed by civilian anti-war protest.’ ‘I should not bear ill will even against those those who have offended against me, and I must avoid getting into a rage, and I must make a firm effort in that direction.’ ‘The athlete might pray humbly to perform with dignity, not to disparage or bear ill will toward opponents, and to set a positive example.’ ‘Like most power struggles, the end result is that someone ‘loses’ and bears ill will from that point onward.’ ‘I did not like his looks at any time, and lately especially he had seemed to bear me malice.’ ‘I may or may not bear ill will toward the law school on whose waitlist I currently languish, behind individuals whose qualifications are, at best, questionably

 superior to my own.’ ‘We do not know whether Boyd bore ill will toward the woman, but it is possible that he did not.’ ‘If by that we mean a person who bears ill will toward Jews, and who, if given an opportunity, would harm the Jewish people, the answer is clearly no.’ ‘This tale turns on the assumption that the thieves bear ill will towards their victims, and the convenient explanation is the difference in race.’ ‘If one therefore bore ill will towards someone then it follows that we would wish to injure them, and our intention towards them would be destructive or evil.’ ‘And I don't bear ill will to anybody, as well as I don't bear it to myself.’ ‘But I don't know one veteran in my chapter who bears ill will against the Vietnamese people.’ ‘Geser tells a tale about the Virgin of Byzantium to whom somebody bore ill will and put a spell.’ ‘If Joseph bore ill will toward them did they really think they would win him over with a bag of pistachio nuts?’ ‘Searching for some solace, some clue that would let him know she had been happy with him, she had not bore ill will for him, that she loved him unconditionally.’ ‘It should be obvious

, but perhaps deserves mentioning, that none bore ill will toward the UN; none wanted the Security Council to fail in reaching a consensus.’ ‘Attell said it was cooling cocoa butter and, for many years, bore ill will towards Kilbane for this charge, which Kilbane often repeated.’ ‘If you bear me malice, wish me the opposite of luck, whatever that might be: destiny or skill, I suppose!’ ‘But thenceforth he bore ill will towards Rollant; it seemed to him that he would never be happy while he lived because of the disgrace he had brought upon him.’ bear a relation (or relationship) to [with negative]Be logically consistent with: ‘the map didn't seem to bear any relation to the roads’ More example sentences ‘At various points in his book, he declares himself incensed by the presumption that the Iris by his side is not Iris, but a generic Alzheimer's sufferer who bears no real relation to that entity.’ ‘In fact, very little of what happens in Dreamer bears a relationship to something that happened in real life, so the ‘true story’ part of the equation is a red herring.’ ‘But the tax bore no relation to ability to pay; within a locality every adult was charged the

 same amount, although millions of poor people got rebates.’ ‘But, in women, their sleep patterns didn't seem to bear a relationship to whether or not they got diabetes.’ ‘All lost weight, but the amount of weight lost bore no relation to whether participants were on a diet or not.’ bear a resemblance (or similarity) to Resemble: ‘the campus bore a faint resemblance to a military camp’ More example sentences ‘Miss Jackson is extremely tall and skinny with a very long neck, and while her body shape reminds me of a giraffe, her facial features bear a resemblance to that of a cross between a beaver and a duck.’ ‘Charlie couldn't help noticing that he bore a resemblance to Jerome.’ ‘Later he was kept in jail for three days because he bore a resemblance to a photofit shown on Crimewatch.’ ‘The collapse of the Nasdaq bubble left the United States in a situation that bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the Japan of a decade ago.’ ‘Composed of a wiry, nervous line, these creatures bear a resemblance to birds only in their beaks and feathered silhouettes; they appear closer to deformations of nature.’ ‘The cop bore a resemblance to someone she used to know.’ ‘Main's method

 of meditation bears a similarity to, but has some differences from, centering prayer as practiced and taught by Keating.’ ‘Sightings at a holiday resort in Norfolk have proved incorrect and a woman bearing a resemblance to Carly seen at the Notting Hill Carnival was traced.’ ‘Although dwarfed in height, it bears a resemblance to skyscrapers like the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Centre in New York.’ ‘The reason is that I bear a resemblance to her father.’ ‘He continued to ‘search’ passersby for the beautiful face he remembered from their brief, hostile acquaintance, but none of those he passed bore a resemblance to the missing lady.’ ‘When a tiny girl bearing an uncanny resemblance to Cindy Lou-Who whispered that she liked dolls and told us her name was Becca Larson, I announced that it was time for a game.’ ‘It is odd that today's strange vehicles should bear a close resemblance to those seen by a scornful poet at London's Rotten Row a couple of generations earlier.’ ‘What you need is a disguise that bears a resemblance to, say, Alan Dershowitz - an attorney who prefers rich, famous clients and seems to spend more time in broadcast studios than courtrooms.’ ‘Although their songs might lack the

 Seattle angst, their music bears a resemblance to the departed scene.’ ‘Some of the subs bear resemblance to the Biskup submarine due to its long perspective.’ ‘North Sumatra Police announced on Tuesday that 27-year-old Zulfan, who bears a resemblance to one of the three sketches of suspects in the Oct.12.’ ‘The bolt shroud is Mauser-like but with a three position horizontal safety, which bears a resemblance to that of the Winchester M70.’ ‘A photograph of a man bearing a resemblance to Mr Bond, circulated in March last year, appears on the Interpol website.’ ‘What has happened to recent Evo's is that the car bears less and less resemblance to its road going counterpart and has become too recognizable IMHO.’ bear witness (or testimony) to 1Testify to: ‘little is left to bear witness to the past greatness of the city’ More example sentences ‘The monument bears witness to 54 women who have gone missing from downtown Vancouver streets - some 15 miles from the farm - in the last two decades.’ ‘The sober person will bear witness to all the messy foibles of your evening.’ ‘A couple of bars still stand nearby, bearing silent witness to the passing of better days.’

 ‘Damien ate cartloads of food every day - I bore witness to that - but never gained the body mass to prove it.’ ‘The old clock still works accurately bearing witness to nearly a century that is behind it.’ ‘I have been checking in with Win since he moved into Room 607, to bear witness to what can happen when someone society has given up on is given a fresh start.’ ‘My children bear witness as to how successful this is.’ ‘I think the California energy crisis a few years back bears testimony to that.’ ‘It breaks my heart to bear witness to what has become of T & T's social fabric as the result of the relentless pursuit of material rewards and possessions at the expense of all else.’ ‘Dhaka is a city with architecture that bears witness to more than 400 years of her history.’ ‘There is definitely money - 4x4 vehicles, restaurants, hotels and mansions on Luanda's beachfront bear testimony to that.’ ‘Millions of Americans gather around their television each year in early May to bear witness to what has become known as the greatest two minutes in sport.’ ‘Here you are bearing witness to actually terrible suffering in Australia.’ ‘He quickly summons his friends to bear witness to what

 they see, and, ever the methodical investigator, he even goes so far as to get them to write down what they observe and then sign their affidavits.’ ‘A friendly and very respectable man, the attendance at his funeral in Newbridge last week, bore testimony to his popularity in the local community.’ ‘And I'd also add that the experience of Matt Cooper, who I represent, sort of bears witness to what can happen.’ ‘But, if you do that, you are not actually bearing witness to what has happened to them and it is extremely difficult.’ ‘Yes, after the many horrors he's bore witness to, I'm not surprised as to why he is so reclusive.’ ‘It has not been an easy process and all of you can bear testimony to that.’ ‘A case in point - only a week after the legislation was brought into place I personally bore witness to what could only be termed as pure stupidity as little boy racers took to the water in one of our main ports.’ Synonyms 1.1State or show one's belief in: ‘people bearing witness to Jesus’ More example sentences ‘The Saatchi advertising and point of sale material bears witness to the trust and passion between the 40 founding friends.’ ‘Fa

ith demands a commitment to bear witness to belief in a real and practical way.’ ‘You stand in a long and honourable tradition of Christians bearing witness to the love of Christ in hard and dangerous places.’ ‘As a monument to the power of one man to bear witness to the Gospel - and to share that witness with millions of others - his papacy was one of the greatest ever.’ ‘Today's women are bombarded by images of ever-shrinking stars who seem to bear testimony to the belief that to be thin is to be happy and successful.’ ‘Her Edinburgh studio bears witness to this immersion in Scapa Flow.’ ‘It's as if people are bearing testimony with their hair that God lives and is angry.’ ‘We must learn from them as they bear witness to and engage the biblical witness to God's revelation.’ ‘The preacher does not just bear witness to some creed - he bears witness to the truths that live in his heart and, in so doing, communicates these living truths to the hearts of others.’ ‘Her conversion in September bears witness to her own new found beliefs.’ ‘This life-which is bearing witness to faith-is revealed in scripture, celebrated in worship, and lived in the service of others, what I would call hospitality and care.’ ‘Of

 particular interest was Dennis Tupicoff's His Mother's Voice, based on a radio interview with an Australian mother bearing witness to how she discovered the sudden death of her 16-year-old son.’ ‘Poetry, in its modern role of having to suffice for the amorphous outside of other discourses, in its scavenging role as witness of the unsaid and unsayable, bears witness to rejection.’ ‘And his recent works, exhibited at the newly-opened Kashi Art Gallery in Bazar Road of Mattancherry, also bear testimony to his beliefs.’ be borne in on (or upon) Come to be realized by: ‘the folly of her action was borne in on her’ More example sentences ‘He was a splendid worker but influence was brought to bear on him, which eventually made him decide to resign from the mission and enter the mining business.’ ‘Elinor has her full complement of sensibility, though her capacity and her cause for suffering is late to be borne in on her inattentive family.’ ‘Tracing the musical genealogy of any given nationalistic genre is no easy task, particularly when there are many influences brought to bear upon it.’ ‘As I listened it began to be borne in on me that he was

 talking complete nonsense, and that I had better have a bit of a think about it.’ ‘The truth has been borne in upon them through their own brave stand that there can be no normal sport in an abnormal society.’ ‘He ran hard for a quarter of a mile, and at the end of that distance it began to be borne in upon him as a strange and curious thing that there were so few people about, and that there were no shops open.’ ‘The truth of that observation will, I think, be borne in on anyone who has watched the BBC tape, as I have.’ not bear thinking about 1.1Take strict measures to deal with: ‘a commitment to bear down on inflation’ More example sentences ‘He was especially eager to bear down on the then-flaccid economy.’ ‘In Phase Two of the ETS we need not only to bear down on carbon emissions (which means tighter caps all round), but also to ensure a more transparent way of allocating the emission allowances in the first place.’ ‘The purpose of the operation is to bear down on what we believe to be concentrations of insurgents and their equipment.’ ‘This scheme appears to contradict the commitment to bear down on night noise.’ ‘This support was not just for the benefits that membership would

 bring in bearing down on inflation, but also for the fiscal discipline and wider advantages it would bring, particularly for business.’ bear off Change course away from the wind.

Example sentences ‘Whenever the boat slows down it pays to ease the sheet, bear off a couple of degrees and then point up again once the boat has regained speed.’ ‘Then bear off slightly, steering away from the wind (tiller away from the sails) until the sail just stops luffing.’ ‘Suddenly she leapt into overdrive as I bore off 20 or so degrees to allow for the extra sail area and increase in apparent wind.’ ‘I bore off under full sail and never came close to burying the boat's rail.’ ‘Of course, once you catch a wave be sure to bear off and use it to sail down to the mark and increase your VMG.’ bear on ‘two kinds of theories which bear on literary studies’ More example sentences ‘Taranto's column also bears on our report from Thomas Lipscomb immediately below regarding the masks of John Kerry.’ ‘This study has absolutely no bearing on the relative therapeutic potency of butterbur and cetirizine in hay fever.’ ‘In this paper, we reviewed the extant literature that appears to bear on this point.’ ‘Walker's method of attending closely to cultural contexts and bringing questions of gender to bear on the study of violent crimes yields some striking results.’ ‘One of the most valuable

 aspects of his work is that it brings English thinking to bear on the art and theory of Continental European modernism.’ ‘Here we review the animal and human studies that bear on this complex, yet common, clinical conundrum.’ ‘Here again the literary dimensions of the dialogue are presented as bearing on its philosophical content.’ ‘Does this have any bearing on the relationship between Informatica and Composite?’ ‘Both look at how extra economic factors have a bearing on labour relations.’ ‘She brings the historian's craft to bear on the study of the epidemic raging at that time, and her account is both enthralling and meticulous.’ ‘Voltinism bears on the hypothesis, especially in regard to T2 species, in two respects.’ ‘The science that studies it will bear on a certain kind of being, immovable substance, immaterial being, not on being as being.’ ‘Several literatures bear on the relationship between gender and New Age beliefs and practices.’ ‘Hendrickson skillfully incorporates relevant readings that bear on whether or not WPR requirements were met.’ ‘In this paper I want to take up certain Hindu formulations of the rasa theory which bear on aesthetic experiences, for several reasons.’ ‘Third, our results bear on current approaches and findings in the network literature

.’ ‘This study also bears on the nature and importance of changes in the configurational entropy on binding.’ ‘So much for the outline of the theory as it bears on our present interests.’ ‘The representing homomorphisms allow the scientist to bring the powerful resources of set theory to bear on the surrogates.’ ‘A direct consequence of this theory of embryological origin bears on the question of species transformism.’ Synonyms be relevant to, appertain to, pertain to, relate to, have a bearing on, have relevance to, apply to, be pertinent to, have reference to, concern, be concerned with, have to do with, be connected with 1.1[with adverbial]Be a burden on: ‘the extension of VAT to domestic fuel will bear hard on the low-paid’ More example sentences ‘In fruits and vegetables, the stimulation of ethylene production by cuts or bruises may be very large and bear considerably on storage effectiveness.’ ‘These last are the levies which bear most heavily on the poor, who pay no income tax.’ ‘The turns and toils of life bear heavy on the soul of man.’ ‘These menu costs will bear heavily on small-medium sized enterprises.’ ‘Immigrant children and youth are the fastest growing

 segment of the U.S.

population, and so their prospects bear heavily on the well-being of the country.’ bear something out ‘this assumption is not borne out by any evidence’ More example sentences ‘Most crucially, Ella Mae's and Peaches's assessment of socially and morally retrogressive nature of black man-white woman relationships bears itself out in Jones's eventual choice of Madge over Alice.’ ‘In fact these assumptions are not borne out by the events that subsequently unfolded.’ ‘Public opinion polls bear out this growing tolerance.’ ‘I know that the Minister will bear these figures out and support me in this, because the growth in vehicle traffic grows greater than inflation every year.’ ‘Election problems in various states such as Ohio, Virginia, Texas, California, and Florida bear them out, justifying a growing unease with electronic voting.’ ‘But he also detects the familiar, steely resolve of a Chancellor who is convinced that they will be borne out.’ ‘But ultimately he decided to hire us, and it bore itself out well.’ ‘I had a different view in relation to Steve Martin and sadly I've been misled in terms of what he told me, but again that's human nature bearing itself out.’ ‘Their opposition to slavery is borne out in Richard Popkin's studies of eighteenth-century racism

.’ ‘Reducing seal populations or eliminating them, contributes nothing to the recovery of fisheries, as the Canadian experience bears out.’ ‘I'm not sure that my observation bears this assumption out, but if it is true, some thought should be given to the condition of ethics in the United States.’ ‘Don Banks of Sports Illustrated.com wrote: ‘The old debate about the offense selling tickets but defense winning championships bore itself out fittingly Sunday.’’ ‘Disc One is subtitled ‘Song Cycle No.1 for Rural Michigan ’, and the implication is that its 10 songs, recorded from 1996 to 1999, were intended to form a unified body of work, a promise that actually bears itself out pretty well.’ ‘Unfortunately, as this article suggests and experience tends to bear out, the masses do judge certain subjects to be more important than others.’ ‘Everything in Seymour's professional experience would seem to bear out Miller's contention.’ ‘Several of these early assumptions were not borne out in the final programme.’ ‘Lai notes that the mathematical treatment was as realistic as possible, using the full so-called Navier-Stokes fluid mechanics equation, but he hopes that experimental confirmation will bear the scheme out.’ ‘I think this prediction really bore itself

 out.’ ‘We assume that statesmen think and act in terms of interest defined as power, and the evidence of history bears that assumption out.’ ‘Clearly, if what we've been reporting bears itself out with facts on the ground, Sistani, his prestige already high, becomes even that much higher and he really walks away with tremendous political clout, should he choose to wield it.’ Synonyms ‘‘Farmers are bearing up to the crisis remarkably well,’ said Mr Gullett.’ ‘Through it all, Ho has been bearing up as well as he can.’ ‘In my mind, dignity comes from bearing up under suffering we meet throughout our lives rather than letting it destroy us, and from facing fears rather than caving in to them.’ ‘Your Mom goes shopping with Dottie and Betty, and over low-fat frozen-yogurt in the food court they worry about how Gloria's been bearing up since her Frank went into the hospital.’ ‘We are in touch with him and his is bearing up well and keeping himself busy.’ ‘Well, she is bearing up as well as she can simply because between her and my father they never left anything unsaid, particularly their love for each other.’ ‘She added: ‘Tina is bearing up as well as can

 be expected.’’ ‘That, and a few personal asides on how he is bearing up under the pressure he has been under over the past few months, should have sufficed as a justification for the 45 bill each member of the lobby had to stump up for the three courses.’ ‘Edmond bore up bravely and I think even enjoyed himself quite a bit, despite a tap-dancing scene which exceeded my tolerance as well.’ ‘‘I hope he is personally bearing up under the strain of all of this and obviously we will hear more this afternoon,’ he said.’ ‘It'll be interesting to see how he bears up under this and what happens.’ ‘The children are bearing up as well as can be expected.’ ‘She is bearing up very well, but she has had a tremendous shock.’ ‘A police spokeswoman said: ‘They're bearing up well considering the circumstances, but are obviously very anxious for Danielle's welfare.’’ ‘His wife is okay and bearing up at the moment and we are just very shocked by what has happened and don't really know what to say.’ ‘He told me the Queen was bearing up bravely but that Charles couldn't speak to anyone at the moment.’ ‘He is really upset that his mum is suddenly gone, but

 he is bearing up really well, I am very proud of him, and I am sure his mum would be too.’ ‘They are very determined and they're bearing up well but their freedom has been taking away from them.’ ‘The victim is bearing up reasonably well considering her ordeal.’ ‘It's a learning experience for sure, something you have to bear up for and get through.’ Synonyms cope, persevere, manage, endure Be patient or tolerant with: ‘bear with me a moment while I make a phone call’ More example sentences ‘For the next 48 hours, she bore with my frettings.’ ‘Thank you for bearing with us, Mr Virdi, while we considered your reaction to Sir Anthony's brief statement.’ ‘He said: ‘The project is progressing well and motorists are being very co-operative.

We want to thank them and members of the public for the way they have been bearing with us in this immensely interesting time for the city.’’ ‘At least till then, the Usilampatti hospital patients may have to bear with the bread.’ ‘Thank you for your patience in bearing with me this far.’ ‘The VIP tickets rocked, and I'd like to thank my wife for bearing with me while I pointed out every other journalist, colleague and showbiz I knew over the 8 hours we were there, stretched out having a picnic in front of 190,000 other people.’ ‘Please bear with me, as I spend most of the brief time left making my case, not rebutting yours.’ ‘Mr Proctor said: ‘Not only would we like to praise the commitment and dedication of all our hospital staff during this difficult period, but we would also like to thank our patients, their families and friends for bearing with us.’’ ‘She passed to her eternal reward on Wednesday, 14th Aug., after a long illness which she bore with great strength and dignity.’ ‘The unprecedented scale of the bar's popularity even took us by surprise and I thank all our trade customers for bearing with us while supply caught up with demand.’

 ‘Gerry died after a long illness which he bore with great courage.’ ‘He has suffered a very long illness which he bore with resignation and courage.’ ‘The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians.’ ‘So she doubtless bore with some equanimity the news that Mr Smith has also been freed up to spend more time with his Munros.’ ‘He begins to suffer from confusion, which he bears with great patience and the most moving anxiety.’ ‘Be completely humble and gentle; be patient bearing with one another in love.’ ‘We are grateful to people for bearing with us as we did the repairs.’ ‘The death took place on Monday, May 16, of Tommy Staunton, Sraheen following a long illness which he bore with great dignity and acceptance under the loving care of his wife Bridie and family.’ ‘Mr Gavin said: ‘We would like to thank staff, parents and pupils, and the community education service, for bearing with us during this time’’ ‘I'd like to thank local residents for bearing with us and for supporting recycling so enthusiastically.’ Synonyms

Question: In the stock exchange what animal is used as a nickname to describe someone who sells shares thinking that the price will fall?
Answer: Bear